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Victoria GoodrichCraig S. Lent, Leo McWilliams

Univ. of Notre Dame Intro to Engineering Systems 2

Flipping the classroom 2014-15

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Introduction to Engineering SystemsCourse scope

– Learn MATLAB programming language including GUI Tool creation.– Student projects– Survey engineering

Class size: 500

In 2015, the course was presented using the flipped classroom model. – All primary content was delivered prior to class through short videos.– No lectures– Class time was used for

(a) brief announcements, (b) working problems with instructor, (c) working problems/projects in groups.

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Camtasia screen capturewww.learningmatlab.com/videos

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Students will watch a 6-9 minute video

Aggregated over several million edX video session.

edX CEO Anant Agarwal ND Digital Week 2014

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Length of online MATLAB videos

Recommended playback speed 1.5X Effective median: 4 min

www.learningmatlab.com/videos

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Comparison of lecture and flipped course

lecture

flipped